Forgive and Forget

Harry was flying around the Quidditch Pitch, wind in his hair as Sirius watched on. He wasn't flying any special way just catching and releasing the snitch showing his godfather what he could do on his new broom. A smile was fixed on Sirius face as he clapped and hollered at Harry from the stands, riding around on his firebolt and proving once again that he was his father's son. Harry made an especially tricky catch……

Harry felt someone shaking him and groaned before rolling over and pressing his face into the pillow. It smelled different than what it was supposed to, and for that matter sometime in the night his four poster had gotten considerably harder. Realization shot through him as he sat upright quickly the back of his head catching Tonks' square in the nose and catapulting her back towards the wall.

She squealed indignantly and glared at him while Harry tried to figure out what in the hell was going on. Everything was blurry and he found himself groping about for glasses that had fallen off of his face sometime during the night. The blur that was Tonks moved towards him and put his missing glasses into his hand. "I was trying to hand you that before you broke my nose." She said, slightly pissy sounding though he could certainly understand why at this point.

"Thanks" He managed before jumping up and catching the most astonishing sight he had ever seen. Remus was holding a bowl of soup and spoon feeding Sirius who hadn't the energy to even hold his own spoon. It was sad and Harry felt his chest constricting before Sirius looked up at him and he saw the familiar joking appearance come over his godfather. "Look up pup, I'm not dead yet." Causing Harry to grin even though he didn't want to. "Wasn't saying you were dead, just a little under the weather." To this Harry received a snort.

Tonks had risen with Harry and as she caught the nod from Remus put a hand on the strong shoulder in front of her. "Let's grab some breakfast, someone is coming from Gringotts so Sirius can make a will and we need to eat." Judging by Harry's face she had nearly gone to far so she let go of his shoulder but he turned either way and led her out of the room. Harry didn't know how things had gotten so out of hand lately but it felt as if his life was going out of its way to hurt him.

Down in the kitchen Harry naturally went over to the pots and the stove, starting up something that for him was routine, at least during the summers. Catching the look on Tonks' face he raised an eyebrow and quietly asked "What?" She just shook her head and looked over at the breakfast already sizzling. "I've never learned how to cook and here a boy…." She trailed off, looking at the man in front of her as a grin lit up his face.

Harry was far from a boy now and was already feeling the effects of certain changes that came with growing older in an instant. He turned, hiding the front of his pants discreetly while continuing on with breakfast. Both of them heard the front door open, Harry's wand was only slightly slower than Tonks as they both rushed the entryway and one old man only narrowly missed being cursed twice.

Dumbledore threw up a shield just in time as curses came flying down the hallway from Tonks and Harry. Harry for one could barely restrain himself from throwing another one even though he could see who the intruder was now. "Go away, we don't need you here" He spat towards the door before turning his back and heading back to the kitchen pulling Tonks behind him. He didn't want her used against him and thought it a slight chance since Dumbledore used everyone against him.

Harry felt Tonks brush against him as she slipped into a seat at the table as he went back to the stove. Neither of them neglected to hear Dumbledore enter the room after them, or the scrape of a chair as he sat down. "Harry I'm going to have to insist you go back to Hogwarts immediately…." The old man was cut off as Harry turned around , hand clenching the counter and looked at him as if he were absolutely insane.

"Actually Headmaster, I plan on staying here with Sirius and completing my schoolwork by owl." Harry said in an attempt to sound civil. It was hard for him considering all the feelings boiling just under the surface and all the new chemicals flooding his brain with the growth of his body. Harry heard Dumbledore argue with him but didn't pay very much attention to the words, he would have to remove Harry by force and in front of witnesses because Harry simply wasn't leaving.

"There is no use arguing Headmaster. I won't and you can't force me to anymore." Harry said quietly as he dished out some bacon and eggs onto a couple plates for himself and Tonks. He didn't feel the need in feeding someone who could very well go anywhere he wanted to eat. He turned and set a plate in front of Tonks before setting himself down next to her. He wasn't using her for cover but he was making sure that someone stayed between them just in case he got it into his head to side along apparate him without his permission.

Harry was immediately surprised by Tonks speaking up, "I agree with Harry, he is fine and protected here and wouldn't fit in at Hogwarts anymore." She turned and looked at Harry and he could have sworn then that he saw something behind her eyes, something that said she knew all about not fitting in. In the blink of an eye it was gone and she was again eating silently in between the two males at the table. "I don't care whether he would fit in or not, Harry you ARE returning to Hogwarts whether under your own power or not." Dumbledore said quietly, veiled threats in his voice making perfectly clear who he thought would win this argument.

Harry gripped the fork in his hand and closed his eyes, sure that accidental magic was about to bust out of him because he felt like he was swimming in rivers of magic at the moment. He felt dangerous and tired all at the same time trying to fight the one person who was constantly manipulating his life in every way that meant anything to Harry. He stood up, his breakfast barely touched and levitated the plate towards the sink, eyes on Dumbledore the entire time. "I'm afraid you have to expel me now Headmaster." Harry added.

Tonks' wand was in her left hand sitting under the table as she continued forking food into her mouth. She wanted Harry to do this on his own, to be the man the entire wizarding world thought he was. Dumbledore sighed loudly at Harry and frowned before turning to leave the room. Harry dashed forward putting himself in front of the door. "Your not going up there Headmaster." He said, deathly calm evident in his voice where earlier only fury had been found.

Dumbledore took everything in hardly missing a beat, age telling the story of hardly ever getting denied what he wanted. It took a second to control his reaction before he turned to Harry. "I was merely leaving so that I could arrange your lessons to be sent to you." Harry nodded curtly and stepped out of the way but still in front of the stairs that would have led him up to Sirius' room. It was clear that Harry was no longer taking chances with his godfather.

"You could have been a little more accommodating Harry" Tonks said from the table while trying to figure out what to do with herself now that her plate was empty. Harry stalked over, blood still boiling from the confrontation and grabbed both their plates up, he wasn't hungry anymore. Dumbledore can sod off for all I bloody care. He won't have anything to do with my godfather or my life again if I can stop him.

The set of his jaw hadn't relaxed any as he turned back around and the only thing that made his lips twitch was the sight of Tonks trying to wash the plates he had just set in the sink. She was running the water over the plates and looking at them expectantly as if the left over breakfast would just fall off of them and leave the china sparkling clean. He nudged her over and grabbed a plate from one of her hands, "Your supposed to clean them Tonks, watch."

He grabbed the scrubber from the back of the sink and rubbed it around the plate, getting some of the soap out of the water and actually getting the plate clean. She frowned and attempted to reproduce the effects Harry had gotten but gave up and simply handed him the plate. "I just don't get it Harry" He heard in the low tones they had both taken to using in the Order HQ. He just shook his head and cleaned the plate off setting it on the sideboard. "Don't worry Tonks, I'm just used to doing all this for the Dursley's. Muggle's don't use magic for household chores… well for anything. You know that being the whole issue with why they don't know about magic."

Round about that time they both heard footsteps on the stairs and turned to find Remus Lupin staring at them with something of a sad expression. Harry instinctively took a few steps toward him and wrapped him up in a hug, being now a few inches taller than his former professor. "Harry… Nymphadora the goblins have left now so you can come back up. I think he'll last for a few more days yet but he just doesn't have an energy."

Duplicate nods told Remus that both of them understood the gravity and the need, at least a little for privacy at night since Remus had been sobbing on Sirius' chest half of the night before. "Good… Tonks if you don't mind sharing a room with a sort of teenaged boy then the one we got the blankets out of last night looks like its close enough that they can get to us if necessary…" Harry trailed off not knowing if the woman wanted to be that close to him or not but received a quick nod in reply to his question.

Remus gripped Harry even harder and then looked around the kitchen hungrily. "There's still some food in the skillet Remus, if you want to eat some and I'll take whats left up to Sirius for you." Harry said motioning towards the kitchen countertop. Remus started towards it while Tonks sat back down at the table and nursed her cup of coffee. Harry grabbed a small bowl of the eggs and bacon then started up the stairs to help Sirius with his breakfast.

30 min later

Harry finished spooning the last of the eggs into Sirius mouth and sighed quietly. He had been listening to his godfather for the last 20 minutes or so tell him that it was time he got out from under Dumbledore's thumb. "Harry goblins will be here again tomorrow, with papers to emancipate you completely… make sure" Harry looked over at Sirius as he stopped speaking and just relaxed for a second before continuing. "Make sure you watch your vaults." Harry nodded his understanding just as Tonks and Remus entered the room.

Glancing at the clock Harry was surprised to find it lunch time already. "If you wouldn't mind Harry I asked Tonks to go grab some things for the house and to take you clothes shopping today if your up for it." Came towards him from the doorway in Remus' raspy tones. Again nodding his agreement Harry leaned over and hugged Sirius' emaciated frame before starting out the door with Tonks.

AN' hope you liked this chapter, I made it long on purpose and I'm hoping to put up a new chapter about once a week to start with since college is starting soon. Review Please!